Former baseball star Curt Schilling was interviewed this morning on the Dennis & Callahan sports radio show on WEEI in Boston in the first such appearance since the demise of 38 Studios, the developer he founded. Boston.com quotes some of the conversation where Schilling spoke of investing all of his personal assets into the company while never a penny back out. He also says his former employees "have every right to be upset" as they were "blindsided" by the studio's closure after he promised a month or two of advance warning, admitting he "bombed on that one in epic fashion." He also describes the last ditch effort to save the company that failed because Rhode Island refused to go along with the plan, and addresses accusations that his acceptance of tax credits and loan guarantees from the state were hypocritical in light of his outspoken conservative viewpoints: "I don't know how that correlates to this. I donít have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses." Thanks JJ.

"They thought that he would be able to bring together the factions that had developed as a result of the divisions, the ideological divisions on the law review, on the left and the right," said Cassandra Butts, a close friend of Obama's during law school and now his White House deputy counsel. After he became president, Obama appointed several conservatives to top positions at Law Review, which angered some liberals.

From among those, the conservatives were eager to have somebody who would treat them fairly, who would listen to what they had to say, who would not abuse the powers of the office to favor his ideological soul mates and punish those who had different views. Somebody who would basically play it straight, I think was really what we were looking for.[snip] And ultimately, the conservatives on the Review supported Barack as president in the final rounds of balloting because he fit that bill far better than the other people who were running. ...

As for that tinyurl, I'd love to read what you've posted, but could you provide a real URL? I won't follow a tinyurl blindly, no offense.

As for USA Today, really? That's the best you can come up with? The fluffiest newspaper in the nation? I wouldn't call USA Today liberal or conservative, just sensationalist with the main goal of selling as many copies as possible.

If Star Citizen was a child conceived in a night of passion, it would have started elementary school by now. -panbient